Amon | wen
At the end of 2021, whether you are a mobile game player or not, you will definitely remember the name of the game - "The Last Oath".
Of course, not necessarily because it is well-made, nor necessarily because it is more powerful, but only because the game has not been opened for 5 days.
This mobile game "The Final Oath" produced by NetDragon and represented by Station B was originally scheduled for public beta at 11:00 on December 9, but immediately after the launch of the service, a large number of players logged into the game to display errors, and only a few "lucky ones" could enter the game.
Soon, the game official said that "due to the fluctuation of the computer room network", it will be dealt with immediately, and gives a compensation plan of "compensation diamond *1000 for every additional hour of maintenance".
Although the game requires 2500 diamonds for ten consecutive draws, but in the form of a quick apology, the player has temporarily forgiven the game official, and this year, the game has been a regular phenomenon of exploding.
At this time, the official never expected that this explosion would plunge themselves into the hell of the dead cycle of opening the service - blowing up the service - opening the service - blowing up the service.
At the beginning, the server was still in the case of seeing the face can enter, the players who can't get in are in a hurry, saying that the Krypton gold liver consumption game starts from 0, why can someone go in earlier than me and sprint before me?
So the game official decided not to do two without stopping, at 2 p.m. directly to the full service for shutdown maintenance, this time everyone is equal, no one can go in. At the same time, the compensation was increased from 1000 drills per hour to 1500 drills per hour.
After a full day of repairs, at 1 a.m., GuanBo came with a big character newspaper: Good news! Good news! Tomorrow at noon (December 10) at 12:00 p.m., we will definitely be able to open the service!
According to the announcement, the repair took so long because "the server suffered a serious failure and could not be repaired." In the end, I had no choice but to temporarily activate the new server without any plan. ”
The official attitude is also very correct, do not require players to understand, only hope that everyone can at least go in and smoke all the diamonds sent. Only at this time, the agreed compensation of 1500 diamonds per hour has quietly become a total compensation of 20000 diamonds.
The reduction of compensation may already be a signal, in short, this time the "open service 2.0" has failed again. Half an hour after the second service, the official announcement will be carried out another shutdown maintenance, this time to learn smart, not to mention the compensation of the number only said that it will be made up.
This stop is 10 hours. This time, they encountered "a serious problem of inter-server crosslinking failure, which had not been seen in previous stress tests, and was verified to have a certain correlation with the underlying structure of the server." ”
These complex words may not be understood by ordinary players, but what they must understand is that "the current compensation reward amount has exceeded the upper limit of the project's controllability, and the large expansion will seriously affect the game ecology, so we will no longer be able to compensate according to this rule." ”
The next announcement was made at 9 p.m. on December 11, 58 hours after the original opening time of the "Final Oath", and the official decision was made to try the service for the third time, just the next day, at 10:00 a.m. on the 12th.
"We are also looking forward to the opening of the server tomorrow." Perhaps it confirms this sentence in the announcement, and the game's opening service 3.0 has failed.
On the evening of the 12th, the official issued the last announcement before the press release, saying, "At present, we have tried as much as possible to solve the problem quickly, but we still cannot effectively solve the problem." ”。
At this stage of development, the player no longer cares about compensating for anything, and we are more curious about what is happening behind this game, which will make so many programmers in the entire game company spend 5 days and can't fix the server?
And before the public beta, the "Final Oath" is not untested, in fact, this year they have conducted at least 4 public limited tests, and there have been no similar problems.
A little later yesterday, a screenshot of the post bar circulated in the forum, which showed in the "Final Oath Bar", and someone broke the news that the game production company had dismissed almost all the old development programmers a year and a half ago, and the current programmers were interns with a monthly salary of 2800.
The programmers who were about to be fired left a bug in the program, as long as the number of people online exceeded 50,000, the amount of data in the game would suddenly increase geometrically until the server burst.
Of course, the authenticity of this picture needs to be considered, because I immediately saw the second statement on the forum, also from the "final vow", this time the server is on fire (chemical level), until the leader decides whether to buy a new server.
No matter what the reason is in the end, or whether both sides are clowns, how the current "Final Vow" looks at it is filled with a cool atmosphere.
However, this time the failure to open the service also made it gain a lot of attention, before many players have not even heard of the game.
The only thing you could possibly hear about is the scandal about its suspected remake of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dreamland.".
Or a variety of online games under the production company NetDragon are suspected of gambling, which indirectly leads to the legal news that players with knives break in and slash multiple employees.
It can be said that this game is already doomed to be infamous even before it is launched, and it is likely to become a victim of being drowned in the huge traffic of the mobile game era.
These waves of service failures have brought it a little attention. However, it is difficult to say whether we can use this spark to fight a turnaround battle in the future.
After all, if the quality of the game is not up to par, relying on eyeballs and the pity of some players alone will still not be able to withstand the big waves.
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